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Rumpled Henry Wallace took his place at the Speaker's stand, tapped the gavel solemnly. The white clock in the House chamber stood at 1:01 p.m.; the U.S. Congress was assembled in joint session. But what Congress had to do was of no importance to anyone. It was going to count the Electoral College ballots for President and Vice President...
...ardent New Dealer, a onetime Iowa Congressman (1933-38) and SEChairman (1941-42), Judge Eicher had done his amiable best with a clumsy Justice Department mass indictment which accused 30 defendants of conspiring to Nazify the U.S. For more than seven .months he had banged a tireless, ineffectual gavel at a score of jack-in-the-box defense lawyers bent on turning his courtroom into a vaudeville stage...
This "ovation" for Franklin Roosevelt and Term IV lasted 36 minutes. Later, a Florida woman delegate rose to nominate Virginia's Harry Byrd for President. There were boos. On the platform, the gavel rapped firmly, and able Convention
...Governorship. It pays better than the Vice-Presidency ($10,000 plus $15,000 in perquisites, against $15,000 for the Vice-Presidency), and Warren has a family of six children to consider. If the Republicans lost, he would be nowhere; if they won, he would have the dull, gavel-rapping, Throttlebottom job that only a President's death makes important. But to preside over the destinies of California in the next four years will be not only one of the nation's most important jobs, but one of the most exciting...
...Price of Peace. Joe Day's discoveries about selling real estate coincided with the northward expansion of Manhattan. As he progressed from one "biggest deal in history" to the next, feature writers repeated the Joseph P. Day legends over & over. He was the man who used no gavel to knock down his sales, but had the auction block padded to keep his right hand from fracturing; the man who relaxed his nerves by quaffing pineapple juice and having two strong-arm men grip his arms and his heels and try to pull him apart; the man who invariably breakfasted...